tracking user visits for the purpose of contest

Discussion in 'Programming' started by cbc58, Sep 26, 2010.

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    we are looking at different ways to gain traffic and are considering giving away an ipod to registered users who visit and click-through the site. for every click-through they get one chance to win the ipod.

    is there a way to track user visits and click-throughs and create a system that pulls all this info together and take all those "chances" and assign a unique # to each "chance" and then have it randomly pick a winner ?

    the basic premise is the more you use the site the greater your chance to win. maybe there is a script that does something for this already?

    our site is php based.
     
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    I'm not aware of anything like that being available through an existing script. However, with a little bit of code and a database back-end you should be able to get this together quite quickly.
    Are you using any kind of CMS or framework to run that site?
     
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    we are using an off-the-shelf classifieds/business directory script.
     
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    Does that script come with a members section so that users can log in? Also, does it have a plug-in interface so that you could develop the required features without modifying the actual source code?
    It's kind of hard to help you with the little information your are giving....
     
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    yes users can login, and i don't know about the second part regarding plug-in integration. thank you for the replies... i am going to post a bid request for this on a freelancer site and see what response i get.
     
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